The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-30
.ssONs or MONROE ,,

THE following interesting incident /
connected with the execution of Max
imilian in Mexico appears in yester-
days Globe-Democrat's correspond |
ence.
The emperor having been shot, the
greatest possible respect was shown to
his remains. The body was brought
from the place Of execution In plain
wooden box and prepared for shipment
to Austria. No public display was
made, and even liberal generals found
it impossible to gain admmittance to
look upon the body. But to the four
American citizens, all who were then
residents of Queretaro, were sent re-
quests to come to the palace and look
upon the remains OF the dead emperor.
The popularity about these notes was
that they were addressed to each of the
four Americans as ''Son of Monroe"
the expression being used to designate
them as the representatives of the Mon
roe doctrine. The wording Of the re-
quest was: "You, as son of Monroe,
are hereby requested to come to the
palace and view the body of the late
Macmillan, that you may be able to
say that he is surely dead"
And the four American citizens one
one of whom Emmett Seaman, narrated
Il .
signed q paper as "Sons of Monroe"
testifying that they had seen Max
/ tmilian'S corpse. Such was the remarBA
able political inquest.
There is another interesting and, it
is said, hitherto unpublished scrap of
history in connection with these closing
events Of the Inflated dynasty of Max
imilian. The empire began to go to
pieces from the time that Secretary
Seward sent his famous note to Ma
poleon III. calling upon him, in the
name of the United States, to withdraw
1 French troops from Mexican soil. The
United States had come out of its civil
war and was in a position to enforce
the Monroe doctrine. The French
ruler complied. at that time the
forces Of Juarez were in the extreme
from point to point. Encouraged by
the Intervention of the United States
they started southwark to regain the
lost ground. Just here comes in the
bit of history. It is given as told by an
ex-officer of the United States army.
When the war between the states
closed there were left at various points
great quantities of army clothing ready
for use by the troops. This clothing
ment, not being entirely disposed of for
years. One of the depots was near FL
Paso, just across the river from Paso
del Norte, which was the headquarters
for large portion or the JuareZ troops.
The ex-officer of the United States
army does not know all the details OF
the transaction, but says that one
day there came an order from
Washington directing the condemnation
and sale of the clothing and equip
ments which had been mysteriously ac-
cumulating in The FL Paso storehouses.
This order was issued about the same
time that Secretary Seward sent his
note Of warning to Napoleon. The
forms of condemnation and sale were
gone through with, says the ex-officer
The clothing was Immediately carried
over the river and distributed to the
troops of JuareZ. And little later the
Mexican army, uniformed in the blue
of the United States, started for the
City of Mexico, sweeping every
ing was very acceptable to
the poorly equipped liberals, but
the material comfort it afforded, says
the officer, was nothing to the moral eff.
feet produced upon the JuareZ forces
and the enemy. When the Mexicans
republicans and imperialists, looked
upon that uniform they had no doubts
that the United States was backing the
republic, and fully expected an Amer
lean army to follow. Perhaps the
clothing of the Mexicans in United
States uniforms was only trick o.
JuareZ and some of his border advisers
it looks, from all the circumstances
given, as If there was here an only par
italy written chapter in Mr.. Seward
Shrewdness as diplomatic.